Drove up from Charlotte to catch the last night Bobby's Birthday The three in Philly and 2 hometown shows.Thus night and 10/19 were what I thought was the best of what I saw 10/20 and the rest pretty average. I like the sound of this FOB.. I.had a board cassettes with no crowd like older Tapes. I had a good Audience tape . I had a VHS that sounded good then came the live Album Nightfall of Diamonds(I've bought it twice) ,then Archive with all its Choices I've listened to almost all of them and I think this is next best thing besides the Album and other audience tapes . They dynamics come through good on here. .This Dark Star seems like it's aging like fine wine getting better, I think this was the best Attic's of my life vocally and the Let it Grow somebody said they saw Walter Cronkite , Then i was convinced that he was there for the Dark Star that j Jerry pretty much said earlier that day on a local radio station, that they would be playing Dark Star "sooner than you think"

Hey GD fans! Well, this transfer has been LONG overdue! For many of deadheads this was one of the first real sources that was widely distributed after the show performance. Of course, the real reason the show flourished so rapidly is the set list matches the performance. The soundboard source that came next wasn't that great but interest and demand gave us fans a legitimate commercial release "Nightfall of Diamonds" via dead. net. (try to grab a CD copy with HDCD, and get into HDCD it's cool!)

I got to hand it to the taper (Ted Mattes) for taping this show and also a great nod to the ever cool transfer team of C. Miller and Co. I like that the original master DAT had been used for the transfer; many early transfers from PCM to DAT, and DAT to DAT can get corrupted by "emphasis" and other digital maladies. This sounds better than my DAT copy and it's at 48 kHz. The reason this show sounded so appealing was the ORTF choice of mic placement. Since we don't have a real location of Mattes, it sounds as if he may have not been in the sweet spot of the arena. However, with ORTF you can still yield a BALANCED stereo image at 110 degrees. (Research ORTF and you will understand more) Moreover, is the significant lack of crowd cheer from a hand held "Front of Board" source; this gives the listener a taste of a old fashioned FM broadcast sound. I like the sound of the recording, it does sound a little distant, not too muddy, but you get a nice idea of what it may have sounded like ... Also, other aud sources to me do not sound that much better or superior at all. The Meadowlands really does not have good acoustics for arena. If you are a hardcore fan of this show like me, you will want a copy of it. Also, a matrix mix would be cool too in the future.